When in the course of human events
Subtitle: arguing the case for southern secession
By: Charles Adams.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Taxation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Description: Adams uses documents from foreign (primarily British) and domestic observers to state that the South was exercising the rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence against a fiscally-quarrelsome and commercial North, rather than maintaining lofty moral principles of slavery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index.